From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5db2a4f776607ef6 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.204.133.213 with SMTP id g21mr48719bkt.3.1332258127737; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: h15ni29138bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.141.40.65.MISMATCH!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:42:06 +0100 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada advocacy References: <19595886.4450.1332248078686.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfy7> In-Reply-To: <19595886.4450.1332248078686.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfy7> Message-ID: <4f68a54e$0$6624$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Mar 2012 16:42:07 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: e2a0bbda.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=Xld8T4^UAg`g`45cDR8l?oA9EHlD;3Ycb4Fo<]lROoRa8kFjLh>_cHTX3jmL;TKA6kVmYa X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-03-20T16:42:07+01:00 List-Id: On 20.03.12 13:54, tonyg wrote: > I am currently fending off an attempt to have my project converted from ADA to some un named monstrosity of a language. Reasons listed are ADA is archaic, programmers can not be found, it takes too long to develop blah blah list goes on. Anyone got any glossy monosyllabillic advocacy documents hopefully in an entertaining cartoon format? Do you have anything in your project for which there is no ready made library in that other language? Here's a sentence not to be said aloud: Being a lemming reduces perceived risk.